The species problem : biological species, ontology, and the metaphysics of biology / David N. Stamos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stamos, David N., 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Species--Philosophy.

Species.

Physical Description:

vii, 380 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2003]

Contents:

1.1 The Species Problem and the Problem of Universals 1

1.2 Ontology and Criteria of Reality 10

Chapter 2. Species Nominalism

2.1 Preliminary Considerations 31

2.2 Occam and Locke 35

2.3 Buffon, Lamarck, and Darwin 47

2.4 Modern Nominalists in Biology 74

Chapter 3. Species as Classes

3.1 Plato, Aristotle, and Linnaeus 99

3.2 Species as Elementary Classes 113

3.3 Species as Cluster Classes 123

3.4 Species as Ecological Niches 143

3.5 Problems with Species as Classes 165

Chapter 4. Species as Individuals

4.1 Precursors from Hegel to Mayr 181

4.2 Ghiselin, Hull, et al. 205

4.3 Punctuated Equilibria 220

4.4 Problems with Species as Individuals 231

4.5 Species as Sets, Clades, and Lineages 252

Chapter 5. Species as Relations

5.1 The Origin of an Idea 285

5.2 Species as Biosimilarity Complexes 296

5.3 Problems with Species as Relations 326.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-374) and index.

ISBN:

0739105035

OCLC:

51242178